@Mr. Big Because i am not going sit there and give the haters any of my time back and forth to argue with their bullshit or their leftist cancel culture. I actually am very busy all the time with radio jobs no time for bullshit. This is a free country and I am allowed to live my live as i fit. Have a nice day and I don`t care what haters think or do or say.

@Mr. Big Go ahead and shake your head. Don`t care. I have a decent life not rich not poor but made my way myself with no ones help. And have a lot of happy new and return customers. My channel is just to show the customers their radio builds. Its a tool for my business nothing more nothing less and is treated as such. If people don`t like it it is not my problem. But my loyal customers and friends like it. That`s all that matters. You have a nice day

Stalker 9?

Still licking your 148?

Cool story, bro.

Just to clarify this a bit...The pot that's AMC is it VR7...and if it is, can I just ask...how do you know that please.

If that is VR7, by it on the board it'll be in white/dull white print.

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its not supposed to until you speak in the mic when on ssb, the louder you speak the more the needle will move

Find a way to mount a siro SD 27 half wave dipole on a window ledge

keystonecountryboy ....

If it's got glass tubes inside, I buy it.

Me. Galaxy.

+cordelmar , On a real one, crank up VR-10 all the way. You will get double the power, but the audio volume drops off. To prevent this, you have to crank VR-11 all the way up too. You then get double the power, and double the audio out of it From the factory, they can dead key 8 or 9 watts, and swing to about 16 or 18, sometimes 20 even, on AM, and hit 24 on SSB. They will stay clean, not bleed or cause TVI either. You don't even have to modify them at all, just turn up the adjustments.

Mine was made in Taiwan. Thanks for the info.

Buy a linear

Microphone gain control

😆 lol. I had an old 148, bought at a garage sale an elderly lady was having. She threw in a black box with fins free. I put it in my f150 with 2 - 102" whips. It was turning tv screens blue for a block. Driving on 290 west at 60mph, I was hitting a guy on a base in Syracuse NY. But, a month later I discovered it was burning my clear coat on my cab.

+alizarin alexander I disagree. They sound like crap with the limiter cut. If you look at the audio wave, it becomes narrow, and rectangular shaped. Modulation gets to be around 200% or even more. You also get all sorts of weird harmonic radiations all over the spectrum when you do that. The channel width get super wide and it bleeds up or down 3 to 5 channels. Clipping parts out of these is the worst thing you could ever do. Also, if you clip the limiter out, is not a single bit louder, than just cranking VR-11 all the way up. The final simply cannot reproduce that much extra audio power, so it stalls out when the audio limits reaches the physical limits of the finals. (Think stalling an airplane when it tries to climb straight up) So not only do you get a super distorted wave form on the scope, but a good chunk of the audio is simply never added to the carrier at all. Just crank up VR-10 and VR-11 the way the factory intended it to, and you will have the loudest, cleanest radio ever made. Even today, the ONLY radios that can compete with it are build on the modern version of the same original main board. The Galaxy today, for example, uses the same identical audio chip as the original 148 did. It's never been upgraded.....nothing beats it, so it stayed the same all these decades.

VanishingNomad all my radios get the limiters cut, its easy to dial back the modulation and its plenty clear, it only gets the distorted sound when its turned up very high and sometimes it sounds really good like that, but to each is own.

Sorry to hear that.

VanishingNomad the problem is that most stock radios the modulation is very low, sometimes as low as 50 or 60% and thats a mud duck dude, doesn't matter if you have a power mic, i've hooked up base D104's to stock radios and the modulation is still 60 or 70%, a power mic doesn't affect the modulation % at all really, it might make you sound loud at short ranges but at long ranges it does nothing, i've tested many times many years ago, all my friends had bases and mobile cb's i would have people get on my base station while i was is my car the next town over and do countless tests using different radios mics etc, i have meters that measure modulation and power etc, so i know what a mud duck is, i would run a galaxy 2100 or cobra 148 in my car using d104 mics, steel whips, and messenger amps, usually 500 watts min, i could go park on a hill in the los angeles area and people 30 to 40 miles away thought i was in their neighborhood, i've used all sorts of antennas, i had a beam on my roof, my friends had different setups, i guarantee you, if you and me had the EXACT same radio and antenna and you left the audio 60% and i cranked mine up to 120%, i would step all over you and even if you had a 300 watt amp my audio would cut thru your carrier, thats a fact, i know for a fact lol i've done it, you're talking to someone who had a CB when i was 10 years old, putting my own antennas up on the house i saved up from delivering the paper and doing odd jobs, i had cbs all my life, even now i have a base, now if you can raise the audio to 100% or very close to it without cutting the limiter great, but thats not always easy to accomplish if at all, so if i'm gonna have a choice of a radio with 60 % audio or 100 plus % audio, its a no brainer.

+alizarin alexander , I don't leave the audio at 60%. If you crank VR-11 all the way up, you can get about 110% modulation with the dynamike set at 10 (8 is a perfect 100% with a power mic). You have a MUCH cleaner, clearer system if you leave the limiter in, and just open the adjustment up. NOW, that said, a CB with the PC-412 mainboard (Like the old 148GTL/2000 & Uniden Grant, Galaxy and the like, or the Export version of the same board), you can do that with. They were built for it from the factory. On the other hand, if you have a different radio, you have to start playing games with the limiter design, or flat out clip it from the system, similar to what you describe. It depends on the radio you are dealing with. Clip the limiter out of an old school Cobra 148 (and others built on the same mainboard), and you will ruin it. 200%-300%+ modulation will wreak havoc with your performance. You will have a loud, distorted, over modulated radio that not only sounds like total crap, but also bleeds all over the place. Trust me, I have built enough of these to know how to do them right (since the 1980s). I don't know what has to be done on the newer 148GTLs though. Those came after my time, and were significantly inferior to the old ones, so I never actually bothered with them. You may have to clip the limiter on those, I don't know.

The 148 GTL is back.. I"ll leave it at that.

B Henderson yes, still available?

B Henderson I have a 148. It was a good radio. Lost power cord. A buddy of mine got a power cord that plug's into CIG.lighter. When it got turned on. It popes and hasn't worked any more. Do you know any one that work's on them. Would it be worth repairing? If you do my e mail mauldinhogan@gmail.com

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